Location: Lane Park Church Café, 22 Lane Street, Upper Hutt

From the Hutt Valley to Myanmar: How a 6 AM Zoom call is changing lives.

A small group of Wellington and international volunteers are keeping an educational lifeline alive for refugee youth?

For the past four years, our charity 25 Bridges has been running early morning English lessons via Zoom for displaced youth hiding in refugee camps in Mizoram, North-East India. Despite sharing single mobile phone screens in camps with no legal right to work, these students show up determined to become future doctors, nurses, and teachers.

Now, we are bringing their stories—and the authentic flavours of their culture—to Upper Hutt.

Join us for “Taste of Myanmar”, an evening of incredible food, moving photography, and powerful storytelling to help us fund life-changing educational scholarships.

When: Saturday 15 August, 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Where: Lane Park Church Café, Upper Hutt
Tickets: $65 Bookings through Eventbrite or contact Marion Porteous 0212375334 for tickets 

A “thank you” to Marion Porteous for sending this article to The Upper Hutt Connection.

01/07/26